8-letter words containing at
- adriatic — of or relating to the Adriatic Sea, or to the inhabitants of its coast or islands
- adulated — Simple past tense and past participle of adulate.
- adulator — to show excessive admiration or devotion to; flatter or admire servilely.
- aduncate — curved or hooked, as a parrot's beak
- advocaat — a liqueur having a raw egg base
- advocate — If you advocate a particular action or plan, you recommend it publicly.
- adynaton — (rhetoric) A form of hyperbole that uses exaggeration so magnified as to express impossibility.
- aegrotat — (in British and certain other universities, and, sometimes, schools) a certificate allowing a candidate to pass an examination although he has missed all or part of it through illness
- aerating — Present participle of aerate.
- aeration — Aeration is the application of upward-flowing air to a layer of particles.
- aerators — Plural form of aerator.
- aerostat — a lighter-than-air craft, such as a balloon
- afflated — resulting from influence of someone or something
- afflatus — an impulse of creative power or inspiration, esp in poetry, considered to be of divine origin (esp in the phrase divine afflatus)
- affogato — a drink prepared by pouring espresso coffee over a scoop of ice cream
- agathism — The doctrine that the ultimate end of all things is good, although the intermediate means may be evil.
- agathist — A person who believes in agathism.
- agatized — to change into or make like agate.
- age-mate — a person or animal of the same age, or nearly the same age, as another
- agemates — Plural form of agemate.
- ageratum — any tropical American plant of the genus Ageratum, such as A. houstonianum and A. conyzoides, which have thick clusters of purplish-blue flowers
- aggerate — (transitive) To heap up.
- agitated — If someone is agitated, they are very worried or upset, and show this in their behaviour, movements, or voice.
- agitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of agitate.
- agitator — If you describe someone involved in politics as an agitator, you disapprove of them because of the trouble they cause in organizing campaigns and protests.
- agminate — gathered or clustered together
- agnathan — any jawless eel-like aquatic vertebrate of the superclass Agnatha, which includes the lampreys and hagfishes
- agnation — Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation.
- aguacate — an avocado
- ahuzzath — a friend of Abimelech with whom he journeyed from Gerar to make a covenant with Isaac in Beersheba. Gen. 26:26–31.
- air date — the date of a broadcast or scheduled broadcast.
- airboats — Plural form of airboat.
- airdates — Plural form of airdate.
- akhnaton — Amenhotep IV.
- al fatah — a Palestinian terrorist organization, founded in 1956, with the aim of destroying the state of Israel: it has splintered into rival factions since 1988
- al sirat — the correct path of religion
- alcatraz — an island in W California, in San Francisco Bay: a federal prison until 1963
- aleatory — dependent on chance
- aleviate — Misspelling of alleviate.
- alginate — a salt or ester of alginic acid
- alienate — If you alienate someone, you make them become unfriendly or unsympathetic towards you.
- alkylate — to bring (an alkyl group) into a compound
- all that — You use all that in statements with negative meaning when you want to weaken the force of what you are saying.
- allative — the grammatical case, or a word used in the case, that in certain languages denotes movement towards something
- allegate — To make an allegation.
- alleycat — a homeless cat that roams in back streets
- alligate — to connect or join (a thing) to something else
- allocate — If one item or share of something is allocated to a particular person or for a particular purpose, it is given to that person or used for that purpose.
- allopath — a person who practises or is skilled in allopathy
- alma-ata — Almaty